Category: landscape
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bye 2025
so for the last day of the year we took a walk through our ever-changing local outdoor art gallery—the train tracks through bottomlands park, calgary.
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horizontals #4
All images shot at Pilling Sands, Lancashire, UK 23 November 2014 7 July 2015 23 November 2014
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beijing blur
If Miroslav Tichý had visited Beijing in April 2012 this is what his cameras might have recorded. (last 2 photos here are Shanghai)
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L’il wallet picture
I recently re-read this brief text, which I wrote as an introduction to a set of essays on photography published by a small London-based press in a limited edition of 300 copies. It seems to me to say some useful things about the treachery of images—and, more generally, of any act of representation—which is why I thought it worthwhile…
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the sweet smell of lavender
In memory of Hind Rajab and Sidra Hassouna On April 3 the Israeli magazine +972 published an explosive article by Yuval Abraham based on interviews with six Israeli intelligence officers, all of whom have served in the army during the current war on Gaza. Its subject was the use of AI software named “Lavender” to generate targets…
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unexpected encounters #16: envoi
Il faut confronter des idées vagues avec des images claires. Jean-Luc Godard, in La Chinoise commentary We were staying at the Hyatt Centric hotel in Kota Kinabalu in Sabah, Malaysia, overlooking the South China Sea. The sunsets there are renowned. As I stepped out from our twentieth-story air-conditioned room onto the balcony to capture the scene,…
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unexpected encounters #12: road trip journal
The truth is that in this house with its four walls of glass I feel … always on alert. I am always restless. Even in the evening. I feel like a sentinel on guard day and night. I can rarely stretch out and relax … Edith Farnsworth, quoted on panel at Farnsworth House [Sally] Hemings’…
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unexpected encounters #4: winter
The western portion of the railway (built 1881-1885) was designed to link British Columbia with the rest of the country and improve trade and commerce between Eastern and Western Canada. Andrew Onderdonk, head contractor of the CPR, promised that he would hire white workers for the project … almost immediately, however, many of the white…
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